This is the first book of The Strathnaver Trilogy, bringing into focus and describing in
tragic detail the fate of the Mackay country - Duthaich Aoidh - in the far northwest
of Scotland. Because of gradual changes in the idea of chieftainship, the people
underwent a transformation from a traditional tight-knit Gaelic-speaking community
to a down-trodden helot population to be cleared away at the will of the landowner and
replaced by sheep. This story has never been told with such clarity or with such passionate
intensity as by Dr Grimble, who lived and worked in Strathnaver and made a special study
of its history.
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